Master Class: Eileen Myles

Study with poet Eileen Myles in a master class workshop at the Chicago School of Poetics. This one-day online class offers an intimate environment within which to work with one of the key figures of contemporary literature.

The class runs for 3 hours and will be held in our online, video-conferenced classroom, so you can attend from your own home, from anywhere in the world.

Class size is limited to 10 students. Sorry, this class has been filled.

Students should submit one of their poems for in-class discussion at least 2 weeks prior to workshop date.

Since she came to New York in 1974 to be a poet Eileen Myles has produced more than twenty collections of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, plays and libretti most recently Snowflake/different streets (poetry), Inferno (a poet’s novel) for which she won a Lambda book award for lesbian fiction, and The Importance of Being Iceland/travel essays in art which was supported by a Warhol/Creative Capital art writers’s grant. In 2009 she received the Shelley Prize from the Poetry Society of America. She was awarded a 2012 Guggenheim fellowship to work on Afterglow (a memoir). She lives in New York and is teaching poetry this semester at NYU.